Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sardonic comments like these are fairly characteristic excerpts from a volume called The Folklore of Capitalism which, published last November (TIME, Jan. 3), has since sold 20,000 copies. Author of The Folklore of Capitalism is an irreverent, eloquent 46-year-old Yale law professor named Thurman Wesley Arnold whose previous career included a term in the Wyoming Legislature, legal work for the New Deal as a trial examiner for the SEC, consultant to Department of Justice's Trustbusting Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...Once Animal Psychologist Otto Wulf, author of a book about Kurwenal, set him a problem: "On the street there are nine houses. I live in the fifth house, reckoning from the park. When coming toward the park, in which house do I live?" Kurwenal thought a moment, yapped: "Fifth...
Chief feature of the Investment News was a daily column of market advice run under the by-line of "Waldo Young." Its author, Editor Clarence Hebb, unwilling to leave Wall Street, announced he would continue the column as a broker's tipsheet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took over Investment News's 6,000 subscriptions, editorialized: "The business recession, rising costs and taxes upon gross -problems with which all business men are familiar-contributed to the final decision to suspend. More will be heard from this ghastly combination...
...There is no immediate threat of a war in Europe," Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government and author of "Government in the Third Reich," said in an interview yesterday...
...Robert Browning's work the rarest item shown is a copy of the book "Pauline," privately printed by the author in 1833. Later, Browning regretted this book and destroyed all but a few copies...